Duds set off alert in Trenton

Joshua RosenauPolice officers at a Morris Avenue home check on devices presumed to be live explosives. 09/26/2011

TRENTON – Police shut down Morris Avenue last night after a tenant in a house found two devices believed to be live explosives.

The tenant, who had recently moved into the house at 318 Morris Ave., was cleaning the basement about 8 p.m. and found two pieces of ordnance, a device that looked like a rocket-propelled grenade and unknown object believed to be a land mine, Battalion Chief Peter Fiabane said.

City police alerted State Police while fire crews used their vehicles to block the street, he said.

“The State Police got there, and soon as he looked at them he knew they were practice dummies. They were duds,” Fiabane said.

Fiabane said the devices may have belonged to the home’s former owner, who recently died.